Help me (not) sleep under a bridge

[dhampyresa]

I am most likely going to spend about three weeks/a month in Great Britain this August.

It'll be just me.

I have no idea what I'm doing yet. I want to go Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, possibly more places, and will likely spend a couple days in London, if only to get over the massive jetlag of going from a French to British timezone. A whole hour, the horror.

I may also see some people. Both from RL and fandom -- definitely lunik_the_bard for sure.

I'll probably go to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival, likely in the first half of the month, as apparently that's when most the shows I want to see are. But nothing's set in stone.

Literally nothing is set in stone.

I don't want to do super touristy stuff for this trip, I'm looking for more unusual stuff like stuff I wouldn't find out about if someone didn't tell me about it. But anything interesting will do. Nothing is too weird! (I will totally sleep under a bridge if that's an option.)

TL;DR: Rec me stuff to see/do in Great Britain. Assume I know nothing.


EDIT: I will not be using a car, I will also be doing England and I will basically take any recs, nevermind how touristy.

Comments

[isis]

When I was in Edinburgh I enjoyed hiking up Arthur's Seat for the view and the ruins of St. Anthony's Chapel.

I also liked seeing both ends of Hadrian's Wall, at Wallsend on the east and Birdoswald on the west. Both sites have Roman fort ruins and museums.

As for non-super-touristy (well, I guess it's still touristy but more quirky) I really liked watching the Millenium Bridge in Newcastle tilt to let river traffic go under!

[dhampyresa]

Thank you so much for the recs! I can't believe I forgot Hadrian's Wall!